February 2008
Intermediate to advanced
192 pages
4h 1m
English
From the beginning of his work on electric lighting, Edison saw the actual incandescent lamp—the invention for which he would become most famous—as only one part of an entire electric lighting system. Of equal importance were the generator and the means of distribution; however, he put the first priority on the lamp, since that was the element that would do the most to create the market demand for the rest of the system. It was also the element that required the greatest degree of original innovation. Initially, it seemed to Edison that existing designs for generators could be readily adapted for his purposes, but while people had been using electric arc lights for many years, no incandescent ...